{"id":44888,"date":"2014-06-16T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44888"},"modified":"2014-06-15T11:56:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T16:56:54","slug":"austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44888","title":{"rendered":"Austerity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Milton Berle teamed up with Spike Jones and the City Slickers to release \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lyricsplayground.com\/alpha\/songs\/l\/leavethedishesinthesinkma.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Leave the Dishes In The Sink, Ma<\/a>\u201d in 1944.<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics provide a glimpse of life for ordinary Americans in the war years.\u00a0 First, it\u2019s a big deal that our kid is coming home from the war alive, as a Sergeant no less.\u00a0 Cause to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>Second, we\u2019ll invite all the neighbors to the party; but what to feed them?\u00a0 There\u2019s baloney, cheese, pickles in the icebox, and cider in the keg in the cellar.\u00a0 What, that\u2019s the best you can do, that\u2019s your version of killing the fatted calf?\u00a0 Well, yeah, in those days, it was.<\/p>\n<p>It was an entirely different world, barely imaginable\u00a0to people living in America today.<\/p>\n<p>And still, that life that to us is austere is\u00a0unquestionably better than the life of most of the people around the globe.\u00a0 The water was safe to drink, easily had.\u00a0 There\u00a0was food.\u00a0 Roof over their heads.\u00a0 Those who wish to remake America in the image of the rest of the globe, ponder that.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The presumption on the part of so much of the Big Left that America\u00a0<em>would\u00a0<\/em>be a great experiment, if it were only socialist, is Obama&#8217;s most toxic legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: &nbsp; Milton Berle teamed up with Spike Jones and the City Slickers to release \u201cLeave the Dishes In The Sink, Ma\u201d in 1944. The lyrics provide a glimpse of life for ordinary Americans in the war years.\u00a0 First, it\u2019s a big deal that our kid is coming home from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-western-civilization","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44889,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44888\/revisions\/44889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}